Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.

The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred And that is a deeper place by far. That is the place of response, of unifying one's heart, mind, soul and feet around a decision.

The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body & flee earth with its constant heartbeat of death, but Goddess forces us back to embrace them, to take our human life in our arms & clasp it for the divine life it is - the nice, sanitary, harmonious moment as well as the painful, dark, splintered ones.

Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.